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Collection of primary resources on medieval and early modern Europe and the Americas. The sources range from materials detailing household and domestic life, religious clashes, and the dawning of the Reformation, to the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Highlights include: The papers of Hans Sloane, a leading figure in the international scientific community in the late 17th and early 18th centuries; household and domestic works, shedding light on the role of women during this period, covering diet, cookery, celebrations, illness, childbirth, and the garden; the books and manuscripts of John Dee, leading Renaissance scholar and tutor/advisor to Elizabeth I; letters and papers of a host of important figures from the period.
Arthurian legends and the influence of French prose romance : the Grail, Lancelot, Tristan and related manuscripts from the British Library -- Black death : sources concerning the European plague. Series one, Rare printed sources from the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuttel, c1470-1822 -- Crown servants. Series one, The papers of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, 1593-1641, from Sheffield City Libraries -- Crown servants. Series two, The papers of the Wynns of Gwydir, 1515-1690 and the Clenennau letters and papers, 1584-1690 from the National Library of Wales -- Crown servants. Series three, The Lauderdale papers, c1647-1682 from the British Library, London -- Early music -- English clandestine satire, 1660-1704 : popular culture, entertainment and information in the Early Modern period -- Foxe and the English Reformation, c1539-1587 : collected manuscript sources from the British Library, London -- The history of science and technology. Series one, The papers of Sir Hans Sloane, 1660-1753 from the British Library, London -- Masculinity : men defining men and gentlemen. Part 1, 1600-1800, sources from the Bodleian Library, Oxford -- Medieval and Early Modern women -- Orinda : the literary manuscripts of Katherine Philips (1631-1664) -- Renaissance man : the reconstructed libraries of European scholars, 1450-1700. Series one, The books and manuscripts of John Dee, 1527-1608 -- Receipt books, c1575-1800 : from the Folger Shakespeare Library -- Spanish historical writing about the New World, 1493-1700 : from the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.